[Trac] Webserver can't write to trac.ini
Hi all, if someone with wiki edit permissions is reading this, can you please change TracIni page to read The trac.ini configuration file *and its parent directory* should be writable by the web server, ... -- hopefully it'll save other some poor shmuck a couple of hours of which tf part of 'chmod 666' did you not understand head scratching. (Installing stock rpms on RHEL [ScientificLinux] 6.) Thx Dima -- Dimitri Maziuk Programmer/sysadmin BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [Trac] Webserver can't write to trac.ini
On 5/17/2011 6:53 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: Hi all, if someone with wiki edit permissions is reading this, can you please change TracIni page to read The trac.ini configuration file *and its parent directory* should be writable by the web server, ... -- hopefully it'll save other some poor shmuck a couple of hours of which tf part of 'chmod 666' did you not understand head scratching. And which part of this is a wiki did you not understand? ;-) Only a handful pages are read-only on t.e.o (like the front page WikiStart), for the rest (TracIni included), everybody is happily encouraged to edit and improve the content! Side note: using the universal edit button makes it easy to notice when one has write permissions on a wiki (not only Trac wikis but most - see http://universaleditbutton.org) -- Christian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Trac Users group. To post to this group, send email to trac-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to trac-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/trac-users?hl=en.
Re: [Trac] Webserver can't write to trac.ini
Christian Boos wrote: And which part of this is a wiki did you not understand? ;-) Yeah, well, I'm sure I'll memorize yet another login and password that I will use most likely never again to add three words to some wiki page. Aside from the obvious bit where having to make trac.ini world-writable in order to make trac work is wrong. Dima -- Dimitri Maziuk Programmer/sysadmin BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [Trac] Webserver can't write to trac.ini
On 05/17/2011 02:23 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: Christian Boos wrote: Yeah, well, I'm sure I'll memorize yet another login and password that I will use most likely never again to add three words to some wiki page. keepassx Aside from the obvious bit where having to make trac.ini world-writable in order to make trac work is wrong. You don't - it just needs to be webserver writeable. Mine: -rw-r- 1 www-data www-data 37201 2011-05-16 18:54 trac.ini Parent dir: drwxrwxr-x 2 www-data admin 4096 2011-03-28 10:58 ./ -- Matthew Caron Build Engineer Sixnet | www.sixnet.com O +1 518 877 5173 Ext. 138 F +1 518 602 9209 matt.ca...@sixnet.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Trac Users group. To post to this group, send email to trac-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to trac-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/trac-users?hl=en.
Re: [Trac] Webserver can't write to trac.ini
Matthew Caron wrote: On 05/17/2011 02:23 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: Aside from the obvious bit where having to make trac.ini world-writable in order to make trac work is wrong. You don't - it just needs to be webserver writeable. If you're the only user on your network and your name is root. Otherwise you're looking at creating and managing lots of groups and most of us just say screw it, chmod -R a+w even before their number hits 32. Dima -- Dimitri Maziuk Programmer/sysadmin BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [Trac] Webserver can't write to trac.ini
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Dimitri Maziuk dmaz...@bmrb.wisc.eduwrote: Christian Boos wrote: And which part of this is a wiki did you not understand? ;-) Yeah, well, I'm sure I'll memorize yet another login and password that I will use most likely never again to add three words to some wiki page. You don't need a username, you can edit the pages anonymously Cheers / Erik Aside from the obvious bit where having to make trac.ini world-writable in order to make trac work is wrong. Dima -- Dimitri Maziuk Programmer/sysadmin BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Trac Users group. To post to this group, send email to trac-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to trac-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/trac-users?hl=en.
Re: [Trac] Webserver can't write to trac.ini
On 05/17/2011 02:40 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: If you're the only user on your network and your name is root. I don't follow. If you're rewriting the .ini file through Trac, it arbitrates access to the file, so no matter who logs in to trac, the webserver is what is accessing the filesystem. If you're having folks ssh in and edit the .ini file manually, but don't want them all to be able to edit everyone else's trac .ini files, then yeah, you're doing groups or sudo. Otherwise you're looking at creating and managing lots of groups and most of us just say screw it, chmod -R a+w even before their number hits 32. So, security is hard and I'm a lazy sysadmin? If it makes you feel any better, HBGary Federal and Sony appear to have sysadmins which take a similar view, so you're not alone in the world. -- Matthew Caron Build Engineer Sixnet | www.sixnet.com O +1 518 877 5173 Ext. 138 F +1 518 602 9209 matt.ca...@sixnet.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Trac Users group. To post to this group, send email to trac-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to trac-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/trac-users?hl=en.
Re: [Trac] Webserver can't write to trac.ini
On 05/17/2011 01:41 PM, Erik Andersson wrote: On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Dimitri Maziuk dmaz...@bmrb.wisc.eduwrote: Christian Boos wrote: You don't need a username, you can edit the pages anonymously Cheers / Erik Oh. I sit corrected. The page's corrected, too. Dima -- Dimitri Maziuk Programmer/sysadmin BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
